Compositions Quotes

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A masculine education cannot spare from professional study and the necessary acquisition of languages, the time and attention which I have bestowed on the compositions… — Anna Seward
I'd like to play for you one of my compositions, my only composition. — Dizzy Gillespie
I have spent over 60 years bent over a guitar and to know that I wrote 70 compositions that masters have recorded, that makes me… — Jerry Reed
In every art beginners must start with models of those who have practiced the same art before them. And it is not only a matter… — Ruth Whitman
In mauve sea-orchids as in her striking earlier book Guardians of the Secret, Lila Zemborain brings into relationship the viscera of the body and the… — Forrest Gander
You should neither play bad compositions, nor, unless compelled, listen to them. — Robert Schumann
Contradictions of perspective. Contrasts of light. Contrasts of form. Points of view impossible to achieve in drawing and painting. Foreshortenings with a strong distortion of… — Alexander Rodchenko
Part of Michael's uniqueness, I think, comes from the fact that he worked with music. He had a tape which he gave me with many… — Madeleine Stowe
I assure you that there's a lot involved in compositions with figures. ... It's like weaving... you must control and keep an eye on several… — Vincent Van Gogh
To the average mind popular music would mean compositions vulgarly conceived and commonplace in their treatment. That is absolutely false. — John Philip Sousa
The overscaled compositions being produced by so many abstract painters, which are full of movement and use of color, are ideal example, ideal transformations of… — Van Day Truex
Liszt commenting on the music of FrÃ©dÃ©ric Chopin: He confided . . . those inexpressible sorrows to which the pious give vent in their communication… — Frederic Chopin
None of these situations are identical. You cannot take one set of issues from one country and apply it to another. They are all different,… — Aga Khan IV
I was very much fascinated with the technology we had that we could edit in the computer our compositions, but all the sounds that were… — Miroslav Vitous
With his new CD 'Tactiles' Liberty Ellman emerges as one of the most intriguing, albeit unorthodox, guitarists on the New York scene today. An album… — Bill Milkowski
There are few gardens that can be left alone. A few years of neglect and only the skeleton of a garden can be traced. .… — Russell Page
I've been playing piano my whole life, but I'd never tried to understand how compositions are made, really. Try to imagine if you'd loved paintings… — Caio Fonseca
Children from a given family background, when put in schools of different social compositions, will achieve at quite different levels. — James S. Coleman
All the old bogeys of 'dignified subject-matter,' of 'balanced compositions,' of 'correct drawing' were laid to rest. The artist was responsible to no one but… — Ernst Gombrich
I have toured with Klemens Marktl, playing his original compositions and arrangements. He is a wonderful drummer, a writer possessing a high degree of creativity,… — Joe Locke

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